The Color of Time
The Color of Time

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The Color of Time is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet CK Williams' collection of the same name. The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through CK William's life. The film takes us on a journey through several decades of American life from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s to the early 1980s: CK and his wife Catherine are married with their son Jed. CK prepares for a reading of 'Tar' in New York Cit... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Color of Time:

James Franco
Mila Kunis
Jessica Chastain
Zach Braff
Henry Hopper
Bruce Campbell

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The Color of Time is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet CK Williams' collection of the same name. The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through CK William's life. The film takes us on a journey through several decades of American life from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s to the early 1980s: CK and his wife Catherine are married with their son Jed. CK prepares for a reading of 'Tar' in New York City, and spends his nights struggling to write new poems, haunted by memories of his past. As CK drives to his reading in New York City, he remembers central moments of his life: we come to experience and understand both his relationship to love and loss, and how he found his calling as a poet through the women in his life. The film takes us back and forth between past and present, punctuated by voice-over from CK Williams' poems, recreating the experience of memory and exploring how the fragments of one's man life can be turned into poetic expression: his loving relationship to his mother, his first sexual experiences as a teenager, his first love and the struggle to preserve a form of innocence and wonder, the illness and loss of a close friend, and finally his life together with Catherine.

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The Playlist - 9/10 by Jessica KiangAn irreproachably tasteful, easily digestible but an unsurprising, undemanding watch.
Movie Chambers - 8/10 by Paul ChambersThis dreamlike film, directed by twelve graduate students from New York University, fails to make celebrated American poet C.K. Williams much more than a mildly interesting daydream. Despite its top acting talent, it even inspires a deeper sleep.
The Film Stage - 7/10 by Jared MobarakThe idea of students collaborating with a stable of famous actors is a wonderful story in itself, but to then treat the culmination of the exercise as more than a student thesis film does it a disservice.
Movie Mezzanine - 6/10 by Tomris LafflyYou couldn't possibly find a more "James Franco" project, produced by and starring James Franco, than The Color of Time, even if you tried.
AV Club - 6/10 by Jesse HassengerThe better moments of Color Of Time make use of the ringer cast Franco was able to assemble, however momentarily.
New York Post - 5/10 by Sara StewartIt’s well-executed but familiar territory, with a dearth of jarring moments. Those of us who aren’t friends and family of the crew could use a little wake-up shove here and there.
Vogue - 5/10 by Nathan HellerThe Color of Time... is the bad chapbook poetry of movies: uncontrolled, gratuitously moody, missing its own point.
Quickflix - 4/10 by Richard HaridyThe most pertinent take away from Tar is simply how influential the Terrence Malick aesthetic has become. A fascinating failure, it works better as a class experiment than as a watchable piece of cinema.
Los Angeles Times - 4/10 by Robert Abele"The Color of Time" is an odd bird in that its 12 cooks don't necessarily spoil the broth. The problem is that they leave it as broth.
The Dissolve - 4/10 by Nathan RabinThe tone is delicate and vaporous, more attuned to mood and melancholy than anything resembling a conventional narrative. And despite the ambition on display, the film feels awfully slight, like a dream forgotten immediately upon waking. In its admirable but muddled attempt to fuse pure poetry and pure cinema, it ends up doing justice to neither.

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